SHOEING HORSES. 331 



For horses requiring the lightest shoeing there is nothing bet- 

 ter. They weigh from two to three ounces, and, in durability, 

 rival the metal shoes. One of its best features consists in the 

 shoe wearing rough instead of smooth, thereby assisting the 

 foothold. For tender-footed horses or those liable to fever up 

 there is no shoe superior to this. The material is furnished in 

 strips from which the shoe can be cut. 



I have sometimes had horses used on the city paved streets 

 whose feet had become dry and brittle and the frogs and bars 

 as hard as horn by being mutilated by the drawing knife of the 

 shoer, shod — after leveling the foot — with a pad of sole- 

 leather placed under the shoe and the space between the sole 

 and the leather filled with pine tar and oakum. The results 

 were very satisfactory. 



